ABC News
Sidney Morning Herald
Newsweek
MSNBC
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(update)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:31:05 -0400
Looks like both Time and the AP picked this up.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/clintontime990705.html
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On July 5th the Sidney Morning Herald Internet edition ran the following
article.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9907/05/world/world9.html
The article details how the CIA will be electronically breaking into
various banks around the world to retrieve Solobadon Milsovics hidden
money.
This claim was originally made by Newsweek magazine on May 24th and was
later picked up and ran by the Reuters news Service.
http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/in/in0922_1.htm
The Hacker News Network immediately questioned the integrity of this
story.
http://www.hackernews.com/arch.html?052599#2
These questions where expanded upon by Bob Sullivan of MSNBC on May 28th.
http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/274526.asp
By June 7th, William Arkin of the Washington Post had gathered enough
evidence to completely debunk this story.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin060799.htm
On July 5th, well over a month after the original false report, the
Sydney Morning Herald receives a story from what looks like The London
Telegraph and blindly runs the story without bothering to verify its
accuracy.
I would hope that the SMH will exercise better judgment and preform at
least some research in the future when running such inflammatory
articles. A respected news organization should not rely on the accuracy
and timeliness of wire reports.
Space Rogue
Editor in Chief
The Hacker News Network
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